The “Deworming Solution” world quest (in Ringing Deeps) spawn rate of the worms is INSANELY low. It’s like for regular mobs, not ones tied to a WQ. 100+ players swarming over an area with ZERO mobs up for minutes at a time is a huge issue. Killing the 12 worms took me 20+ mins.
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awful quest design. please hotfix
It’s not a spawn rate issue. Most of them are underground with a rumbling earth effect. They won’t appear above ground until you get close enough to aggro them.
i just tested this and it seems to not be the case. the spawn rate is still abysmal.
Looks like we were half an hour apart on this. 
I’m not talking about in the mine by the way. This is outside the mine and they are everywhere and spawn quickly. They are all just below the ground hidden and you can only see a rumbling earth effect. When you go ontop of them they will pop up above ground.
I’m above ground and these mobs do not exist. The only ones I’m seeing sometimes are level 80s and you have to run over their path to make them pop up.
EDIT: I found 2 of the little worms and they are also 80s. My new questions is: why does my level 72 have access to a max level WQ? It gives half the xp of the others ones…
Just hit lvl 74, showed up to do this WQ and found there were almost no mobs and those VERY few that did spawn were all 80. What is the deal? Does the game scale, or not? Seems like most of the time the game scales to my level, but quite often this just doesn’t happen. Was the case in Dragon Flight as well.
Was just coming to the forums to post this problem. Seriously needs more worms.
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the name of this world quest a big lie. You dont need a deworming solution because you dont have any freaking worms to begin with
Laughs in “Detect Beasts”
Hunters do have an advantage, if they bother with their full toolkit, since the worms register on the minimap even if submerged.
However, the spawn rate is still a little anemic for a WQ, since there are maybe 20 total spawns in the entire quest area, and they go fast when the WQ is live.
Dear Blizzard: when making a quest to kill 12 of a thing, it’s very helpful to actually spawn that thing. thank you
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Bump, fix it please. Added this to my list of “Do not do until Blizzard fixes” WQ.
This is still a problem and it’s not that they’re underground. You can fly around the area and there are none underground. There’s 6+ people flying around in circles trying to do this quest. It’s just an empty dead area with a few worms occasionally spawning. No worms. No swirlies on the ground that spawn worms. There’s a cave that has like 2 worms in it.
The world feels empty and dead in the area for this WQ.
Multiple quests with this issue - something has changed with spawn numbers and spawn rates, maybe an anti-farming change, but whatever it is, it needs to be reverted / fixed.
Current WQ with this issue include:
No More Bread - few seagulls, spawn in singles, very slow respawn
Recovery Job - few tools spawned, very slow respawn
Exterminate - few nerubians, very slow respawn
Don’t recall the name but a week back there was a WQ to kill kobolds - same issue, few kobolds, very slow respawn.